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Chicago examiner thursday vol x no 198 a m Chicago august 8 1912 thursday registered in u 8 patent offiw price one cent Â£Â»Â£Â£ Â£ ggg harrison is on way to avert car strike - mayor hastens home from his vacation on receipt of telegrams showing that the situation is desperate tecutive will confer with companies officials and representatives of unions at 11 o'clock this morning !* harriron is speeding to Chicago as i a locomotive can bring him to use st endeavors lo avert a strike of railway employes telegram to w d mahou president amalgamated association of street trie railroad employes the mayor â€¢ would meel mahou and the presi of the three unions involved at 11 to-dag in bis office in the city hall r harrison bad been prepar d to to Chicago at a moment's notice by aminer in a telegram sent monday 1 telegram was sent the mayor early lay by the examiner in which te formed that his presence in Chicago isolutely necessary because of the linger of a strike that would par he manufacturing and business iu of the city - starts for Chicago telegram was sent by special ines ! on a motorcycle from big bay as the mayor was getting ready e to Chicago the telegram from ' men signed by president mahou c presidents of the three unions inded him it had beeu delayed wer lo president mahou's telegram l/uiediatcly scut and the mayor started for big bay to lake a train for Chicago ! resident l a busby of the chi â€¢ railway company was holding nce with the union committee rst national bank building pres hon was called to the telephoue of the message from the mayor b the conference with president is said by the latter to have bees is and that all talk of a strike squelched president muhon was dissatisfied ho said that pres sby wanted to take up uegotia lin aaav go over the same old mahon dissatisfied nts to discuss the working condi settle them before he gives us r on the wage question said mahon that is not satisfac it mahon left the conference to or postponing the meeting called norning with president john m the Chicago railways company nent that will be held this after hat the uniou officials can pre â€¢ case ot mayor harrison an committee remained with pres by and considered several of 1 the contract proposed by the but made no headway on any m the committee finally agreed president busby again friday he union officials grumbled at the dn asked by president busby it that until the conference with arrison no objections would be it mahon sa ; d he was confident mayor holds the key to the sitna s anxious to lay the whole matter n in the belief that as chief exec can assist in getting an advance that will avert a strike with mayor considered the conference held last night by committees of the two surface the elevated roads the confer the mayor was extensively con president busby's desire that ne be taken up again and every ar ade heretofore repeated was con 1 superfluous and dilatory is the use of going over again g that refers to working condi xclaimed president mahon after committee conference we know lie company stands on those what we want to know is what my is going to do about wages is of ear men sought information sidenl mahon but he said that r the conference with mayor har could uot give them any encour : it brotton i budd held a confer 1 the elevated employes headed â€¢ nl mcmorrow another meeting | will lie held to-day every effon is being j 9b*)ite to come to an agreement before sat it*Â»t when he contracts of the union with the live elevated railroads ar made i although the roads have been merged a i separate contract , s being considered for each of lire linws arbitrate the street car controversy there is no cause for a strike thicago must be spared a street car strike two and a half j million people make this demand there is no cause for such a strike there is not a question at issue which cannot be left fairly to a board of unprejudiced arbitrators the only question involved in the controversy between the men and their employers is one of wages and hours there is no question of policy there is no attempt on the part of the men to dictate to the companies the manner in which they shall conduct their business the men have presented a demand for an increase in wages and have offered as an argument therefor a tabulated statement showing that the wages paid under the present scale are not sufficient to meet the needs of the men in view of the present high cost of living this is a question which can be fairly presented to an arbi tration board the arguments can be presented clearly and the evidence can be weighed by the judges there can be no possible excuse for a refusal to arbitrate either on the part of the workingmen or the traction companies if the traction companies cannot afford to pay their working men more let them prove it to the satisfaction of the board of arbi tration if the traction companies contend that the men are sufficiently paid to maintain themselves in comfort in spite of the present high cost of living let them present their evidence in any event the testimony is bound to be conclusive and the decision of an impartial board of arbitrators should be accepted by both parties as the only reasonable way out of the present difficulty the rights of two and a half million people must not be ignored Chicago must be spared a traction tie-up k the examiner pledges its support and hearty co-operation in the effort to secure arbitration bubbles don't make champagne says u.s it must come from marne district in france insists federal prosecutor the federal government is now confront jed with the question what is cham pagne homer hall assistant united states at torney at st louis mo is iu Chicago for the purpose of souudiug the opinion of local experts as to the solution of the query the proposition emauated from a civil suit filed iu the united states district court iu st louis by the united states attorney against six cases of wine labeled cbauipague by the m houimel wine coin pauy of sandusky ohio the charge of the federal prosecutors is that the liquid is wine and that the label ing of the beverage as champagne is iu violation of the provisions of the federal pure food and drugs act the government maintains that there can be uo champagne made in america and that the high-toned sparkling driuk must come from the vicinity of the marne river in france which was formerly the province of champagne the defendants contend that any wine that is fermented in the bottle is champagne regardless of whether it be made in france or iu the united states noble held in fraud police charge aged man with pass ing worthless checks william lodtman sixty-seven years old who says he is of german noble birth is a veteran of three wars and tin authority ou international law and science who was arrested ou suspicion of having passed a number of worthless checks will be given a hearing to-day lodtman told the police that he is a graduate of the ini versity of strasbiirg lie was arrested iu the home of refer deboe 2334 north marshfield avenue his son-in-law after complaint had been made by five down town department stores that he had de frauded them out of sums raugiug from f2 to 33 by means of worthless checks the police say he is an ex-eonvlct boys 6 and 7 burglars children suspected when they trade gold watches for circus tickets hammond lud aug 7 two indiana harbor boys louis and walter zarmun aged seven and six were arrested by the police for burglary and committed to judge lawrence p.ccker's court here to day louis was detected giving gold watches to secure entrance to a circus and disclosure of a jewelry store robbery followed they n.ade rheir headquarters in a cave under a vacant store and cou fessed to several burglaries col george h sweet dies elizai'.kth n j aug 7 colonel jeorge h sweet a veteran of the mexican and civil wars is dead at his home the maples at the age of eighty-one he served under denei-al scott in the mexican war and was promoted to colonel of the i'ifteeuth 1 exas cavalry in the civil war tor bravery on the field u s td have record war fleet review greatest naval pageant in country's history will be held in september washington aug 7 a naval review calculated to eclipse any demonstration of water fighting power ever undertaken by the vnited states will be held in new vork harbor beginning september 12 next preparatory orders for the review have been issued by the navy department whose officials ate now at work ou the details formal announcement of the complete plans will be made about septetu ber 5 the demonstration will far surpass even the wouderous pageant held in the hud son river last year president Taft and secretary of the navy meyer will review the pageant from aboard the arkansas the newest super-dreadnought leading the fleet will be the 2(!,000-tou battleship wyoming and in line iu addition to prac tically the entire atlantic battleship fleet will be the newly created atlantic re serve fleet the battleships destroyers and subma rines which put to sea from newport lor maneuvers will be ready for the review as soon as they finish their present work at sea to this fleet now at sea will be added the battleships michigan north da kota south carolina vermont georgia virginia alabama minnesota and the idaho foreign naval and diplomatic representa tives will be invited to wituess the spec tacle as the guests of the government longworth a fancy diver enjoys cool plunge while papvin law roosevel works washington aug 7 while his father in-law is in Chicago representative nich olas longworth is in the swim at the pub lic bathing beach where he takes an early morning plunge daily accompanying mr longworth frequently are senator cham berlain and his two daughters who are expert swimmers the society invasiou of the bathing beach heretofore the haunt of the general public is amazing to the attaches representative longworth is said lo take special delight in performing stunts from the springboard and emu lating the small boys in jackknife dives and the good old-fashioned flops the two small sons and daughters of the chi nese charge d'affaires also haunt the beach 2,000 for perfect girl swiss will provides annual prize for savoy social cable to the examiner geneva aug t two thousaud dollars is to be giveu annually as a prize to the most perfect girl physically and mentally in savoy this is a provision in the v/ill of m garrett wealthy and eccentric ex deputy of chamberey who retired from i politics several years ago and has siuce ! lived in the alpine grotto savoy he | left his entire fortune to the town of savoy on the condition that the above pro i isi'.m be complied with j husband is accused by wife near death woman suffering from con sumption tells court of abandonment deserted slept on floor defendant who has 2,500 declares he is too poor to pay hospital expenses a woman near death from cousumptiou appeared as the chief witness against jier husband in the court of domestic rela tions yesterday pale and whispering she told her story to support her charge of wife abandonment peter oesterreicber 2056 west twenty first street the defendaut followed her on the witness stand and told the jury hearing the ease that he was too poor to pay 14 a week to keep ber in a hospital and almost iu the same breath told of offering her 300 if she would relinquish all claims on his property so be would have no trouble witb her sleeps on floor katherine oesterreicber the wife told the court and jury through an interpreter bow she had slept ou the floor at her brother's house after ber husband bad be come unkind to her three months ago we quarreled she said in the last five weeks be has paid me x2 and lu the five weeks before that he paid me about 5 she admitted that she had refused to go to the county hospital or to the oak forest infirmary i told her i couldn't give her any more money and then she would steal behind my back testified ihe husband every uiomiug when 1 got up i would look to see if she was alive he said a moment biter told parents not to aid her attorney john stelk who appeared for the defendant read a letter that oester reicber wrote to his parents two months ago in which he told of his wife leaving him and inking money with her he warned his folks uot to keep her or.gin her any mouey despite the fact that oesterreicber testi fied he could not pay a hospital bill of 14 a week for his wife the record of the social secretary in the court of do mestic relations shows him to he worth 500 judge morau sitting iu the court urged a settlement and continued the case uutil monday u s transports family revenue cutter brings poor man and children from abognak island washington i c aug 7.â€”secre tary of the treasury macveagh to-day came to the front in support of large fam ilies when he authorized the use of a rev enue cutter lo transport inuise cleghorn and his family of a wife and eleven chil dren from his home on afognsk island to puget sound washington secretary mac veagh gave the uecessary authorization after receiving an appeal from cleghorn in which the latter stated that he is poor and unable because of the lack of work at afognsk to obtain employment for mem bers of his fnmily he is - handicapped himself by being crippled but is employed as a watchman earning 525 a mouth crane heirs in court ordered to testify in postoffice con demnation orders were issued yesterday in the united states court for charles r crane and other heirs of the estate of the late richard t crane to appear and answer to condemnation proceedings in the matter of the west side postoffice site the property owners were cited to appear iu court on the first monday in september to place a valuation of their interests and to answer to the condemnation action ihe other members of the craue heirs summoned are mrs emily h crane the widow of 2341 michigan avenue richard t crane jr and herbert p crane girl 8 controls trust owns america's largest guinea pig farm market cornered dayton ohio aug 7 the youngest monopolist in the world lives in dayton she is beatrice howell daughter of frank howell a wealthy attorney and she is only eight years old she controls the guinea pig market state boards of health medical colleges and other organ izations which must have guinea pigs for laboratory experimental purposes are at her mercy she is the head of america's largest guinea pig farm two sisters kathryu aged eleven and pauline aged five assist her woman has 28th child niagara falls x v aug 7.-au eight-pound boy her tvjonty-eighlh child was born to-day to mrs philip k webster mrs webster is forty-four years old was married when she was sixteen and of her children there were three pairs of twins anil two sets of triplets kijht of the iweul.v-eigbt are still alive roosevelt and johnson the old parties 1 political parties exist to secure respon sible government and to execute the will of the people i'rom these great tasks both of the old parties have turned aside instead of instruments to promote the gen eral welfare they have become the tools of corrupt interests which use them impar tially to serve their selfish purposes be hind the ostensible government sits en throned and invisible government owing uo allegiance and acknowledging uo responsi bility to the people to destroy this in visible government to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and cor rupt policies is the first task of the states manship of the day the deliberate betrayal of its trust by the republican party the fatal incapacity of the democratic party to deal with the new issues of the new time have com pelled the people to forge a new instru ment of government through which to give effect to their will in laws and institutions cnhampered by tradition uncorrupted by power undismayed by the magnitude of the task the new party offers itself as the instrument of the people to sweep away old abuses to build a new and uobler com monwealth covenant with the people this declaration is our covenant with the people and we hereby bind the party and its candidates in state and nation to the pledges made herein the rule of the people the progressive party committed to the principle of government by a self-con trolled democracy expressing its will through representatives of the people pledges itself to secure such alterations iu the fundamental law of the several states and of the i'nited states as shall insure the representative character of the govern ment in particular the party declares fur direct primaries for the nomination of htate and national officers for nation wide preferential primaries for candi date for the presidency for the direct election or vnited states senators by the people ami we uriye on the mate the policy of the short hailut with re spniisiliility to the people secured by the initiative referendum and recall amendment of constitution the progressive party believing that a free people should have the power from time to time to amend their fundamental law so as to adapt it progressively to the changing needs of the people pledges itself to provide a more easy and expeditious method of amending the federal constitu tion nation and state up to the limit of the constitution and later by amendment of the constitution if found ueces*a-y wt advocate bringing un der effective national jurisdiction those problems which have expanded beyond reach of the individual states it is as grotesque as it is intolerable that the several states should by unequal laws in the matter of common concern become compstin commercial agencies barter the lives of their children the health of their women and the safety and well beiug of their working people for the profit of their financial inteiests the extreme insistence on states rights by the democratic party ii the baltimore platform demonstrates anew its inability to nndi rsfind the world into which it has survived or to administer the affairs of a union of states which have in all essential equal suffrage the progressive party believing no people ran justly claim to be a true democracy which denies political rights on account of sex pledges it self to the task of securing equal suf frage to men and women alike corrupt practices we pledge onr party to legislation that will compel strict limitation of all cara rigid trust law and new tariff platform pledge recall of court decisions and suffrage planks features of promises made to people by new progressive party two battleships each year campaign fund publicity and strong interstate laws to control commerce urged the platform adopted by the progressive party convention advocates political indus trial agrarian commercial and social con servation and tariff reforms it is in the form of a contract with the people and was mostly written by colonel roosevelt the opening of the platform says the conscience of the people in a rime of grave national problems has called into being a new party born of the nation's . awakeued seuse of justice we of the progressive party here dedl cate ourselves to the fulfillment of the duty laid upon us by our fathers - to maintain thai government of the people by the peo ple and for the people whose foundations they laid the platform assails the republican party for the deliberate betrayal of its trust and the democratic party for its fatal incapacity the platform iu full follows the conscience of the people iu a time of grave national problems has called into being a new party born of the nation's awakened fcense of justice we of the progressive party here ded icate ourselves to the fulfillment of the duty laid upon us by our fathers to main tain that government of the people by the people and for the people whose foun dations they laid we hold with thomas jefferson and abraham lincoln that the people are the masters of their constitution to ful fill its purposes and to safeguard it from those who by perversion of its intent would couvert it into an instrument of injustice in accordance with the needs of each generation the people must use their sovereign powers to establish and maintain equal opportunity and industrial justice lo secure which this government was fouuded and without which no repub i 1 lie can endure this country belongs to the people who inhabit it its resources its business its institutions and its laws should tw util ized maintained or altered in whatever manner will best promote the general in terest it is tiu-e to set the public welfare in the first place ticket is named by acclamation convention ends by james j montague bull moose leaders sketched in act of completing ticket another day - of record breaking cheers marks the third session of the new party's national conclave after long list of new prece dents doxology is sung as closing hymn roose velt pledges fight of career after drawing with his own hand a plat form that eight years ago lie would have denounced as incendiary and anarchistic colonel theodore roosevelt of oyster bay x y was last night nominated for pres ident of the united states by the newly born progressive party hiram w john son the energetic progressive governor of california was nominated for vice president both were named by acclama tion both hurled themselves outside the lireasl works of the republican party whÂ«n they accepted the nominations which they did ten minutes after johnson had been acclaimed as the convention choice for second place on the ticket thus two former valhini republicans grasping hands across the contineui ::<< forth from armageddon to battle bbose velt for a third term in the white linns johnson for the seat now held uy tfc linn jim sherman of ctica the tumuli and the shouting have die the delegates and alieruates have deparj ed a new party standing on n platform which promises everybody everything au.i whose only sound features arc lifted liodii from the principles advocated tor years iy the hearst newspapers has been i>u ofi its young feet whether it will learn i walk by election time depends chiefly ou the personal popularity of theodore roose velt who alone is responsible for its em istence echo of republican convention yesterday's proceedings which com pressed the whoie actual business of th convention into a few crowded hours were but the echo of the republican convention of june the two nominees selected by ihe minority of that convention were named . yesterday the men who were forcibly prevented from running that con vention ran this one eren the nominat ing speeches conned by rote for delivery in june were delivered yesterday wrtliam prendergast of new york who had been chosen to nominate roosevelt in june yesterday for the first time had the chance to deliver the address which for eight weeks he had carried on the fervid tablets of his memory repression was not one of the features of the oratory that skyrocketed about the coliseum from 11:30 in the morning till Â» at night roosevelt nominated and sec onded by half a dozen of the nation's most enthusiastic boosters was described as the embodiment or all the human virtues that as yet have been invented colonel compared to lincoln prendergast referring from time to time to the faces of washington jefferson and lincoln which were borne on the conven tion badge described him finally as defy ing the raging warring element like the granite bulwarks of the cliffs that lion hearted citizen theodore rooevelt pren dergast also alluded to the colonel as a brother of the race which moved oue of the rejected negro delegates from florida to observe he ain't uo brudder ob de cnllud race judge ben b i.indsey who swayed and swung like a reed in a gule as he spoke al lowed that not even abraham lincoln him self bad so well deserved the gratitude of the righteous and the hatred of the u:i righteous as roosevelt alexander hamil ton not the first reactionary tlmuke-i iod that there had been a dixie laud i cause it had given birth to iiooseyclf 7 motiier hamilton came from georgia and has long gray locks which he shook as be spoke to emphasize his eloquence only jane addams of hull house spoke earnestly and dearly without oratorical flourishes or campaign buncombe in sec onding fhe domination jane addams cheered when mis adams bud concluded a big yellow banner was brought to ner anj for a minute she held it up while the delegates and spectators cheered and sang then she was borne down the steps and about the hall by the Illinois delegation it was the most genuine and most impressive demon stration of the day another incident that stood forth was the adaress of colonel t p uoyd of flor ida a confederate veteran of great age who had lost an arm iu the war and re ceived lor it the sorry compensation of four continued on 2d page 2d column bj w tiaara has raminad and certified l the circulation of this publication tfca figuras of circulation contained in tfaa association's raport only are guaranteed amtociotion of amoriemn admortimmrt no 2509 whitehall bldg n y city Chicago and vicinity â€” con tinued unsettled weather with occa rssi^rt^ii 1 â„¢! sional showers thursday and prob 1 tj ably friday light to modorate south j kk^lr erly winds b*aoming variable â€¢ 1 jci!i r teuiperaturos yesteÃŸday *" tÂ£?*bssni

Chicago examiner thursday vol x no 198 a m Chicago august 8 1912 thursday registered in u 8 patent offiw price one cent Â£Â»Â£Â£ Â£ ggg harrison is on way to avert car strike - mayor hastens home from his vacation on receipt of telegrams showing that the situation is desperate tecutive will confer with companies officials and representatives of unions at 11 o'clock this morning !* harriron is speeding to Chicago as i a locomotive can bring him to use st endeavors lo avert a strike of railway employes telegram to w d mahou president amalgamated association of street trie railroad employes the mayor â€¢ would meel mahou and the presi of the three unions involved at 11 to-dag in bis office in the city hall r harrison bad been prepar d to to Chicago at a moment's notice by aminer in a telegram sent monday 1 telegram was sent the mayor early lay by the examiner in which te formed that his presence in Chicago isolutely necessary because of the linger of a strike that would par he manufacturing and business iu of the city - starts for Chicago telegram was sent by special ines ! on a motorcycle from big bay as the mayor was getting ready e to Chicago the telegram from ' men signed by president mahou c presidents of the three unions inded him it had beeu delayed wer lo president mahou's telegram l/uiediatcly scut and the mayor started for big bay to lake a train for Chicago ! resident l a busby of the chi â€¢ railway company was holding nce with the union committee rst national bank building pres hon was called to the telephoue of the message from the mayor b the conference with president is said by the latter to have bees is and that all talk of a strike squelched president muhon was dissatisfied ho said that pres sby wanted to take up uegotia lin aaav go over the same old mahon dissatisfied nts to discuss the working condi settle them before he gives us r on the wage question said mahon that is not satisfac it mahon left the conference to or postponing the meeting called norning with president john m the Chicago railways company nent that will be held this after hat the uniou officials can pre â€¢ case ot mayor harrison an committee remained with pres by and considered several of 1 the contract proposed by the but made no headway on any m the committee finally agreed president busby again friday he union officials grumbled at the dn asked by president busby it that until the conference with arrison no objections would be it mahon sa ; d he was confident mayor holds the key to the sitna s anxious to lay the whole matter n in the belief that as chief exec can assist in getting an advance that will avert a strike with mayor considered the conference held last night by committees of the two surface the elevated roads the confer the mayor was extensively con president busby's desire that ne be taken up again and every ar ade heretofore repeated was con 1 superfluous and dilatory is the use of going over again g that refers to working condi xclaimed president mahon after committee conference we know lie company stands on those what we want to know is what my is going to do about wages is of ear men sought information sidenl mahon but he said that r the conference with mayor har could uot give them any encour : it brotton i budd held a confer 1 the elevated employes headed â€¢ nl mcmorrow another meeting | will lie held to-day every effon is being j 9b*)ite to come to an agreement before sat it*Â»t when he contracts of the union with the live elevated railroads ar made i although the roads have been merged a i separate contract , s being considered for each of lire linws arbitrate the street car controversy there is no cause for a strike thicago must be spared a street car strike two and a half j million people make this demand there is no cause for such a strike there is not a question at issue which cannot be left fairly to a board of unprejudiced arbitrators the only question involved in the controversy between the men and their employers is one of wages and hours there is no question of policy there is no attempt on the part of the men to dictate to the companies the manner in which they shall conduct their business the men have presented a demand for an increase in wages and have offered as an argument therefor a tabulated statement showing that the wages paid under the present scale are not sufficient to meet the needs of the men in view of the present high cost of living this is a question which can be fairly presented to an arbi tration board the arguments can be presented clearly and the evidence can be weighed by the judges there can be no possible excuse for a refusal to arbitrate either on the part of the workingmen or the traction companies if the traction companies cannot afford to pay their working men more let them prove it to the satisfaction of the board of arbi tration if the traction companies contend that the men are sufficiently paid to maintain themselves in comfort in spite of the present high cost of living let them present their evidence in any event the testimony is bound to be conclusive and the decision of an impartial board of arbitrators should be accepted by both parties as the only reasonable way out of the present difficulty the rights of two and a half million people must not be ignored Chicago must be spared a traction tie-up k the examiner pledges its support and hearty co-operation in the effort to secure arbitration bubbles don't make champagne says u.s it must come from marne district in france insists federal prosecutor the federal government is now confront jed with the question what is cham pagne homer hall assistant united states at torney at st louis mo is iu Chicago for the purpose of souudiug the opinion of local experts as to the solution of the query the proposition emauated from a civil suit filed iu the united states district court iu st louis by the united states attorney against six cases of wine labeled cbauipague by the m houimel wine coin pauy of sandusky ohio the charge of the federal prosecutors is that the liquid is wine and that the label ing of the beverage as champagne is iu violation of the provisions of the federal pure food and drugs act the government maintains that there can be uo champagne made in america and that the high-toned sparkling driuk must come from the vicinity of the marne river in france which was formerly the province of champagne the defendants contend that any wine that is fermented in the bottle is champagne regardless of whether it be made in france or iu the united states noble held in fraud police charge aged man with pass ing worthless checks william lodtman sixty-seven years old who says he is of german noble birth is a veteran of three wars and tin authority ou international law and science who was arrested ou suspicion of having passed a number of worthless checks will be given a hearing to-day lodtman told the police that he is a graduate of the ini versity of strasbiirg lie was arrested iu the home of refer deboe 2334 north marshfield avenue his son-in-law after complaint had been made by five down town department stores that he had de frauded them out of sums raugiug from f2 to 33 by means of worthless checks the police say he is an ex-eonvlct boys 6 and 7 burglars children suspected when they trade gold watches for circus tickets hammond lud aug 7 two indiana harbor boys louis and walter zarmun aged seven and six were arrested by the police for burglary and committed to judge lawrence p.ccker's court here to day louis was detected giving gold watches to secure entrance to a circus and disclosure of a jewelry store robbery followed they n.ade rheir headquarters in a cave under a vacant store and cou fessed to several burglaries col george h sweet dies elizai'.kth n j aug 7 colonel jeorge h sweet a veteran of the mexican and civil wars is dead at his home the maples at the age of eighty-one he served under denei-al scott in the mexican war and was promoted to colonel of the i'ifteeuth 1 exas cavalry in the civil war tor bravery on the field u s td have record war fleet review greatest naval pageant in country's history will be held in september washington aug 7 a naval review calculated to eclipse any demonstration of water fighting power ever undertaken by the vnited states will be held in new vork harbor beginning september 12 next preparatory orders for the review have been issued by the navy department whose officials ate now at work ou the details formal announcement of the complete plans will be made about septetu ber 5 the demonstration will far surpass even the wouderous pageant held in the hud son river last year president Taft and secretary of the navy meyer will review the pageant from aboard the arkansas the newest super-dreadnought leading the fleet will be the 2(!,000-tou battleship wyoming and in line iu addition to prac tically the entire atlantic battleship fleet will be the newly created atlantic re serve fleet the battleships destroyers and subma rines which put to sea from newport lor maneuvers will be ready for the review as soon as they finish their present work at sea to this fleet now at sea will be added the battleships michigan north da kota south carolina vermont georgia virginia alabama minnesota and the idaho foreign naval and diplomatic representa tives will be invited to wituess the spec tacle as the guests of the government longworth a fancy diver enjoys cool plunge while papvin law roosevel works washington aug 7 while his father in-law is in Chicago representative nich olas longworth is in the swim at the pub lic bathing beach where he takes an early morning plunge daily accompanying mr longworth frequently are senator cham berlain and his two daughters who are expert swimmers the society invasiou of the bathing beach heretofore the haunt of the general public is amazing to the attaches representative longworth is said lo take special delight in performing stunts from the springboard and emu lating the small boys in jackknife dives and the good old-fashioned flops the two small sons and daughters of the chi nese charge d'affaires also haunt the beach 2,000 for perfect girl swiss will provides annual prize for savoy social cable to the examiner geneva aug t two thousaud dollars is to be giveu annually as a prize to the most perfect girl physically and mentally in savoy this is a provision in the v/ill of m garrett wealthy and eccentric ex deputy of chamberey who retired from i politics several years ago and has siuce ! lived in the alpine grotto savoy he | left his entire fortune to the town of savoy on the condition that the above pro i isi'.m be complied with j husband is accused by wife near death woman suffering from con sumption tells court of abandonment deserted slept on floor defendant who has 2,500 declares he is too poor to pay hospital expenses a woman near death from cousumptiou appeared as the chief witness against jier husband in the court of domestic rela tions yesterday pale and whispering she told her story to support her charge of wife abandonment peter oesterreicber 2056 west twenty first street the defendaut followed her on the witness stand and told the jury hearing the ease that he was too poor to pay 14 a week to keep ber in a hospital and almost iu the same breath told of offering her 300 if she would relinquish all claims on his property so be would have no trouble witb her sleeps on floor katherine oesterreicber the wife told the court and jury through an interpreter bow she had slept ou the floor at her brother's house after ber husband bad be come unkind to her three months ago we quarreled she said in the last five weeks be has paid me x2 and lu the five weeks before that he paid me about 5 she admitted that she had refused to go to the county hospital or to the oak forest infirmary i told her i couldn't give her any more money and then she would steal behind my back testified ihe husband every uiomiug when 1 got up i would look to see if she was alive he said a moment biter told parents not to aid her attorney john stelk who appeared for the defendant read a letter that oester reicber wrote to his parents two months ago in which he told of his wife leaving him and inking money with her he warned his folks uot to keep her or.gin her any mouey despite the fact that oesterreicber testi fied he could not pay a hospital bill of 14 a week for his wife the record of the social secretary in the court of do mestic relations shows him to he worth 500 judge morau sitting iu the court urged a settlement and continued the case uutil monday u s transports family revenue cutter brings poor man and children from abognak island washington i c aug 7.â€”secre tary of the treasury macveagh to-day came to the front in support of large fam ilies when he authorized the use of a rev enue cutter lo transport inuise cleghorn and his family of a wife and eleven chil dren from his home on afognsk island to puget sound washington secretary mac veagh gave the uecessary authorization after receiving an appeal from cleghorn in which the latter stated that he is poor and unable because of the lack of work at afognsk to obtain employment for mem bers of his fnmily he is - handicapped himself by being crippled but is employed as a watchman earning 525 a mouth crane heirs in court ordered to testify in postoffice con demnation orders were issued yesterday in the united states court for charles r crane and other heirs of the estate of the late richard t crane to appear and answer to condemnation proceedings in the matter of the west side postoffice site the property owners were cited to appear iu court on the first monday in september to place a valuation of their interests and to answer to the condemnation action ihe other members of the craue heirs summoned are mrs emily h crane the widow of 2341 michigan avenue richard t crane jr and herbert p crane girl 8 controls trust owns america's largest guinea pig farm market cornered dayton ohio aug 7 the youngest monopolist in the world lives in dayton she is beatrice howell daughter of frank howell a wealthy attorney and she is only eight years old she controls the guinea pig market state boards of health medical colleges and other organ izations which must have guinea pigs for laboratory experimental purposes are at her mercy she is the head of america's largest guinea pig farm two sisters kathryu aged eleven and pauline aged five assist her woman has 28th child niagara falls x v aug 7.-au eight-pound boy her tvjonty-eighlh child was born to-day to mrs philip k webster mrs webster is forty-four years old was married when she was sixteen and of her children there were three pairs of twins anil two sets of triplets kijht of the iweul.v-eigbt are still alive roosevelt and johnson the old parties 1 political parties exist to secure respon sible government and to execute the will of the people i'rom these great tasks both of the old parties have turned aside instead of instruments to promote the gen eral welfare they have become the tools of corrupt interests which use them impar tially to serve their selfish purposes be hind the ostensible government sits en throned and invisible government owing uo allegiance and acknowledging uo responsi bility to the people to destroy this in visible government to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and cor rupt policies is the first task of the states manship of the day the deliberate betrayal of its trust by the republican party the fatal incapacity of the democratic party to deal with the new issues of the new time have com pelled the people to forge a new instru ment of government through which to give effect to their will in laws and institutions cnhampered by tradition uncorrupted by power undismayed by the magnitude of the task the new party offers itself as the instrument of the people to sweep away old abuses to build a new and uobler com monwealth covenant with the people this declaration is our covenant with the people and we hereby bind the party and its candidates in state and nation to the pledges made herein the rule of the people the progressive party committed to the principle of government by a self-con trolled democracy expressing its will through representatives of the people pledges itself to secure such alterations iu the fundamental law of the several states and of the i'nited states as shall insure the representative character of the govern ment in particular the party declares fur direct primaries for the nomination of htate and national officers for nation wide preferential primaries for candi date for the presidency for the direct election or vnited states senators by the people ami we uriye on the mate the policy of the short hailut with re spniisiliility to the people secured by the initiative referendum and recall amendment of constitution the progressive party believing that a free people should have the power from time to time to amend their fundamental law so as to adapt it progressively to the changing needs of the people pledges itself to provide a more easy and expeditious method of amending the federal constitu tion nation and state up to the limit of the constitution and later by amendment of the constitution if found ueces*a-y wt advocate bringing un der effective national jurisdiction those problems which have expanded beyond reach of the individual states it is as grotesque as it is intolerable that the several states should by unequal laws in the matter of common concern become compstin commercial agencies barter the lives of their children the health of their women and the safety and well beiug of their working people for the profit of their financial inteiests the extreme insistence on states rights by the democratic party ii the baltimore platform demonstrates anew its inability to nndi rsfind the world into which it has survived or to administer the affairs of a union of states which have in all essential equal suffrage the progressive party believing no people ran justly claim to be a true democracy which denies political rights on account of sex pledges it self to the task of securing equal suf frage to men and women alike corrupt practices we pledge onr party to legislation that will compel strict limitation of all cara rigid trust law and new tariff platform pledge recall of court decisions and suffrage planks features of promises made to people by new progressive party two battleships each year campaign fund publicity and strong interstate laws to control commerce urged the platform adopted by the progressive party convention advocates political indus trial agrarian commercial and social con servation and tariff reforms it is in the form of a contract with the people and was mostly written by colonel roosevelt the opening of the platform says the conscience of the people in a rime of grave national problems has called into being a new party born of the nation's . awakeued seuse of justice we of the progressive party here dedl cate ourselves to the fulfillment of the duty laid upon us by our fathers - to maintain thai government of the people by the peo ple and for the people whose foundations they laid the platform assails the republican party for the deliberate betrayal of its trust and the democratic party for its fatal incapacity the platform iu full follows the conscience of the people iu a time of grave national problems has called into being a new party born of the nation's awakened fcense of justice we of the progressive party here ded icate ourselves to the fulfillment of the duty laid upon us by our fathers to main tain that government of the people by the people and for the people whose foun dations they laid we hold with thomas jefferson and abraham lincoln that the people are the masters of their constitution to ful fill its purposes and to safeguard it from those who by perversion of its intent would couvert it into an instrument of injustice in accordance with the needs of each generation the people must use their sovereign powers to establish and maintain equal opportunity and industrial justice lo secure which this government was fouuded and without which no repub i 1 lie can endure this country belongs to the people who inhabit it its resources its business its institutions and its laws should tw util ized maintained or altered in whatever manner will best promote the general in terest it is tiu-e to set the public welfare in the first place ticket is named by acclamation convention ends by james j montague bull moose leaders sketched in act of completing ticket another day - of record breaking cheers marks the third session of the new party's national conclave after long list of new prece dents doxology is sung as closing hymn roose velt pledges fight of career after drawing with his own hand a plat form that eight years ago lie would have denounced as incendiary and anarchistic colonel theodore roosevelt of oyster bay x y was last night nominated for pres ident of the united states by the newly born progressive party hiram w john son the energetic progressive governor of california was nominated for vice president both were named by acclama tion both hurled themselves outside the lireasl works of the republican party whÂ«n they accepted the nominations which they did ten minutes after johnson had been acclaimed as the convention choice for second place on the ticket thus two former valhini republicans grasping hands across the contineui ::<< forth from armageddon to battle bbose velt for a third term in the white linns johnson for the seat now held uy tfc linn jim sherman of ctica the tumuli and the shouting have die the delegates and alieruates have deparj ed a new party standing on n platform which promises everybody everything au.i whose only sound features arc lifted liodii from the principles advocated tor years iy the hearst newspapers has been i>u ofi its young feet whether it will learn i walk by election time depends chiefly ou the personal popularity of theodore roose velt who alone is responsible for its em istence echo of republican convention yesterday's proceedings which com pressed the whoie actual business of th convention into a few crowded hours were but the echo of the republican convention of june the two nominees selected by ihe minority of that convention were named . yesterday the men who were forcibly prevented from running that con vention ran this one eren the nominat ing speeches conned by rote for delivery in june were delivered yesterday wrtliam prendergast of new york who had been chosen to nominate roosevelt in june yesterday for the first time had the chance to deliver the address which for eight weeks he had carried on the fervid tablets of his memory repression was not one of the features of the oratory that skyrocketed about the coliseum from 11:30 in the morning till Â» at night roosevelt nominated and sec onded by half a dozen of the nation's most enthusiastic boosters was described as the embodiment or all the human virtues that as yet have been invented colonel compared to lincoln prendergast referring from time to time to the faces of washington jefferson and lincoln which were borne on the conven tion badge described him finally as defy ing the raging warring element like the granite bulwarks of the cliffs that lion hearted citizen theodore rooevelt pren dergast also alluded to the colonel as a brother of the race which moved oue of the rejected negro delegates from florida to observe he ain't uo brudder ob de cnllud race judge ben b i.indsey who swayed and swung like a reed in a gule as he spoke al lowed that not even abraham lincoln him self bad so well deserved the gratitude of the righteous and the hatred of the u:i righteous as roosevelt alexander hamil ton not the first reactionary tlmuke-i iod that there had been a dixie laud i cause it had given birth to iiooseyclf 7 motiier hamilton came from georgia and has long gray locks which he shook as be spoke to emphasize his eloquence only jane addams of hull house spoke earnestly and dearly without oratorical flourishes or campaign buncombe in sec onding fhe domination jane addams cheered when mis adams bud concluded a big yellow banner was brought to ner anj for a minute she held it up while the delegates and spectators cheered and sang then she was borne down the steps and about the hall by the Illinois delegation it was the most genuine and most impressive demon stration of the day another incident that stood forth was the adaress of colonel t p uoyd of flor ida a confederate veteran of great age who had lost an arm iu the war and re ceived lor it the sorry compensation of four continued on 2d page 2d column bj w tiaara has raminad and certified l the circulation of this publication tfca figuras of circulation contained in tfaa association's raport only are guaranteed amtociotion 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